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Dealing with uncertainty
The current corona crisis has dramatically changed our lives within a few weeks. Our normal live has disappeared. This leads to massive uncertainty for many people. However, since security is a fundamental basic need of us humans - it...
ONLINE COACHING – an adequate substitute for physical coaching?
Especially in the last few days, we have often heard from our clients that many managers are currently "working at the limit" and need support. Under normal circumstances, coaching would be an option - but now? We recommend to seriously consider online coaching for...
VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP I
Since this week, many managers have been confronted with leading virtual teams overnight. Suddenly, it is no longer possible to quickly visit the team's office or to get an idea of how the employees are doing or what topics they are working on. How much uncertainty...
TEAMWORKSHOP OVER TWO DAYS ONLINE – A REPORT
In the course of the last week it became clear that our daily routine will be different from Monday onwards. Since we are all on the road a lot, every team member has a laptop with a camera. In the last few months we have invested a lot of time to professionalize our...
BRAINSTORMING – HOW TO DO IT RIGHT
Brainstorming needs good rules to be focused and successful. In cooperation situations, brainstorming techniques are often used to find new ideas. Many people believe that it is enough to simply call something brainstorming to get ideas flowing. But that's not...
HOW DESIGN THINKING DIFFERENCIATES FROM BRAINSTORMING
Recently I had a conversation with a client who told me that somehow his team is not as creative as it should be. He told me that he wanted much more innovation in his team, but that in creative workshops with the employees, the same topics always came up and no new...
INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP – Old wine in new hoses or what is it about?
Influential Leadership has been a feature of my literature since about 2013, and I deliberately used the "Teufelshörnchen" (Devil's Squirrels) to answer this question in order to shed light on this topic from a cultural-critical perspective. In current leadership...
CASE STUDY: INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP
Influential leadership means that someone exerts a targeted influence on others, but does not use power or their own hierarchical position to do so. This can take place in an entrepreneurial environment where a leader may use this opportunity to make things happen....
INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP
You do not have to be the highest level person in the company to make a difference. In this issue of our newsletter we focus on one particular aspect of leadership - Influential Leadership. The question is: How can I exert influence without holding a "position of...
WORKHACKS. Six attacks on established workflows
Lydia Schültken sees the key for real change in the development of new, optimized routines, not in extensive change projects. Work Hacks are not given from "above" or conceived by a management consultancy, but are changed, tested and implemented, introduced by those...
CASE STUDY: Work Hacks
A few weeks ago I had a leadership training with executives. It was about finding ways and means to strengthen the team's ability to work together. The managers were asked to develop "small" interventions that could be implemented quickly on the one hand and bring...
WORK HACK: Agile Project Management
The term "agile project management" is an indication that there is a desire in a company for proven and established processes, but at the same time one would like to have the advantages of both methods. In the handling of projects proven traditional project management...
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